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Hermes Trismegistus (Public Domain Image)
Hermes Trismegistus (Public Domain Image)

The Divine Pymander

of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

Translation by John Everard

[1650]


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This is an early modern translation of a central text of the Hermetic canon, the Divine Pymander.


Title Page
Preface
Hermes Trismegistus, His First Book
The Second Book, Called, Poemander
The Third Book, the Holy Sermon
The Fourth Book, Called the Key
The Fifth Book, That God is not Manifest, and Yet Most Manifest
The Sixth Book, That in God Alone is Good
The Seventh Book, His Secret Sermon in the Mount of Regeneration, Profession of Silence
The Eighth Book, the Greatest Evil in Man is the not Knowing God
The Ninth Book, a Universal Sermon to Asclepius
The Tenth Book, the Mind to Hermes
The Eleventh Book of the Common Mind, to Tat
The Twelfth Book, His Crater or Monas
The Thirteenth Book, of Sense and Understanding
The Fourteenth Book, of Operation and Sense
The Fifteenth Book, of Truth to His Son Tat
The Sixteenth Book, that None of the Things that Are Can Perish
The Seventeenth Book, to Asclepius, to be Truly Wise